"More than 35 million Chinese people live outside China, but this population is far from homogenous, and its multifaceted national affiliations require careful theorization. This book unravels the multiple, shifting paths of global migration in Chinese society today, challenging…
What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflo…
What do governments do when much of their population simply gets up and walks away? In Mexico and other migrant-sending countries, mass emigration prompts governments to negotiate a new social contract with their citizens abroad. After decades of failed efforts to control outflo…
Return: nationalizing transnational mobility in Asia
Since the late 1990s, Asian nations have increasingly encouraged or demanded the return of emigrants. In this anthology, cases of return migration in Asia provide the ground for rethinking relations between nation-states and transnational mobility.
"Return migration has recently been 're-discovered' as a significant emerging dimension of today's global migration patterns. It is no longer the forgotten or overlooked dimension in international circuits of emigration and immigration. It is no longer disparaged as the mobility…
"Return migration has recently been 're-discovered' as a significant emerging dimension of today's global migration patterns. It is no longer the forgotten or overlooked dimension in international circuits of emigration and immigration. It is no longer disparaged as the mobility…
Pilgrims in the strange homeland -- Japanese blood, Brazilian birth, and transnational God -- Putting aside living -- Neither here nor there -- Back to the present -- The culture of love -- Of two bloods -- Ancestors of God -- Accompanied self -- Jesus loves Japan
'China's rise is having a large impact on the global science system. The internalisation of this system in the past two decades would not have been possible without the outbound and especially the return flows of overseas Chinese scientists. This book explores their impact combi…
"This new edition of Edward A. Allworth's The Tatars of Crimea, has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find peace and acceptance in a homela…